Methodological background

Writing an essay about American history in Norway is a real challenge. First
of all literature about American history has no priority in Norwagian libraries,
especially at the University of Bergen. To compensate I started searching the Internet
but using web-resources showed little successful. The quality was rather different
from source to source.

An important resource was the state census, especially the 1850 census. Earlier
state censuses were unavailable as Texas first joined the United States in 1848. This
may be a weak point in my essay. It would have been desirably and probably helped my
essay, if earlier censuses for the state Texas had been available.
At the same time my issue was maybe a little bit too narrow. Texas in the beginning of
the nineteenth century, was perhaps not a good subject regarding the opportunities of
getting good bibliographic material.